Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

Thanks to the Darwin Plus program, the myriad of amazing marine life in the Caribbean deep sea - including sharks - is about to come to light. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

Life in the Deep Sea. Posted: December 16, 2024 | Last updated: December 16, 2024. A marine biologist unveils the wonders and mysteries of the deep sea, sharing groundbreaking science and little ...

A crushing dive into the ocean's darkest realms has revealed surprising differences among the marine life that populates the Pacific Ocean's deepest depths. Researchers from the University of ...

According to the brief, around 28,000 deep-sea creatures have been identified and named, but its authors estimated that there are 2.2 million species that scientists have yet to identify—some of ...

Research into the sediment-dwelling marine life in deep-sea canyons may help to predict how marine ecosystems will respond to human disturbance of the ocean, such as deep-sea mining and trawling.

Researchers sequenced DNA from deep-sea sediments around the world and found that there is at least three times more life on the seafloor than there is higher up in the ocean. What's more, nearly ...

Only about 20% of the ocean’s depths has been mapped by humans. Here’s what we do — and don’t — know about the deep seas and why studying them is so precarious.

Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity 40 years ago. The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared with ...

Deep sea mining threatens sea life, environmentalists say. California law has a solution As mining companies look to the seafloor for critical metals, environmentalists say California’s Right to ...

In the deep sea, it is always night and it is always snowing. A shower of so-called marine snow — made up of pale flecks of dead flesh, plants, sand, soot, dust and excreta — sifts down from ...